LEGO

I saw this today and it reminded me of the LEGO millipede incident that happened back in 2005.

Some people got together and decided that they wanted to build the longest millipede out of LEGO ever. So they picked IKANO as the location and dumped what seemed like all the LEGO in the world right in the main display bit and then threw a bunch of instruction booklets there on how to assemble the pieces to look like millipede body sections so that anyone who wanted to could be a part of the project.

So that was up for a while.

And then it was on display for a while.

It was in the newspaper quite a fair bit too, I think.

But that's not where the fun part is. The fun part is when its tenure was up and they were disassembling it.

For this purpose, they retained their 'free for all' mentality and anyone who wanted could come in and smash it up to help them along.

And of course, this happened on the day Alex and I went to IKANO with mahm. The second we saw it, we jumped at the opportunity. Smashing things?

Hello, speciality.

It was awesome.

Then, I think it was me that had the brilliant idea of jumping into the huge pile of LEGO that had collected.

Hello, mistake.

We both jumped right as far as we could into the sea of plastic only to discover that LEGO isn't as cushy as we had initially thought. The pieces did not part like the red sea and fall away like sand. They stayed put and stabbed us in whatever body part they could reach.

Stab stab stab.

We wanted out.

And the only way out was to wade slowly and painfully out of the pile.

By then, mahm was standing there looking smug at her idiot children looking slightly worse for the wear. We were all scratched up and bruised, but that didn't take away from the fact that we had had a good time.

I don't regret it one bit.

We left with stupid grins on our faces and two stolen LEGO pieces feeling like we had conquered the world.

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Hope you're all well.

:)